Hall v. Wagner
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Otto Wagner and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew" York on the 30th day of March, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 19th day of April, 1905, •denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
The plaintiff sues to recover the value of 100 shares of the first preferred stock of the Erie Railroad Company, alleged to have been the property of tlie plaintiff’s testatrix. The evidence is undisputed that the plaintiff purchased and paid for this stock; that the stock was delivered to her and at her request was transferred in, the name of Webb & Prall, stockbrokers, to enable them to collect the dividends ; that on July 27, 1903, she borrowed the sum of $2,000 from Webb & Prall, depositing this 100 shares of stock with them as collateral security for the loan; that on April…
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